live from washington, this is bbc news. welcome to viewers on pbs in america. lawyers representing women in a case involving sex offenderjeffrey epstein and deutsche bank confirm the bank has agreed to settlement. prince harry's spokesperson says he and meghan were involved in a "near catastrophic car chase", while police say there were no reported collisions or injuries. scientists warn that global temperatures could breach a key limit within the next four years. i'm sumi somaskanda. lawyers representing the unnamed women in a class—action civil lawsuit brought against deutsche bank has confirmed the bank has

agreed to up to $75 million to settle a case involving sex—offender and former financierjeffrey epstein. the wall streetjournal first reported that the lawsuit alleged that the bank did business with epstein for five years — while knowing he was using money in his bank accounts to further sex—trafficking activity, and that the bank ignored red flags including payments to numerous young women. with me is news correspondentjessica parker to discuss this further. great to have you with us, tell us what deutsche bank is saying about all this.— about all this. deutsche bank toniuht about all this. deutsche bank tonight are — about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying _ about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very - about all this. deutsche bank tonight are saying very little. | tonight are saying very little. it is officially no comment at the moment from the bank. but there have been pointed to a statement they made in 2020 where they talked about acknowledging the error of onboarding epstein as they say. in the weakness of processes. they say they have learned from mistakes and shortcomings. i

have also heard from their spokesman tonight who is saying deutsche bank has made considerable progress in remedying and a past issues including investing lots of money to bolster controls on trading and operational processes. so they're making those kind of statements without confirming the nature or the sum of the settlement. the wall streetjournal saying the $75 million, i'm certainly not being steered away at from a figure of the moment.- not being steered away at from a figure of the moment. have we heard from _ a figure of the moment. have we heard from many _ a figure of the moment. have we heard from many of— a figure of the moment. have we heard from many of the - a figure of the moment. have we heard from many of the other - heard from many of the other parties? heard from many of the other arties? ~ . ., ., parties? we have had a statement _ parties? we have had a statement from - parties? we have had a statement from one - parties? we have had a statement from one of| parties? we have had a i statement from one of the parties? we have had a - statement from one of the law firms representing the unnamed women in this case. they are saying the settlement will allow dozens of survivors of jeffrey epstein to finally attempt to restore their faith in our system. so, that coming from the law firm representing the unnamed women in this case.—

women in this case. remind us ofthe women in this case. remind us of the background _ women in this case. remind us of the background of _ women in this case. remind us of the background of all - women in this case. remind us of the background of all this. i of the background of all this. you mentioned at the top of the accusation was that deutsche bank had basically ignored red flags around jeffrey epstein, it was alleged that they had done business with epstein for a number of years while now he was losing money in his accounts to further his alleged sex trafficking activity. of course, epstein was found dead in 2019 while awaiting trial. chase parker, thank you for staying on top of the story for us and of course a developing story at this hour, we will bring the latest details to our viewers as soon as they come to us. prince harry and meghan were involved in what their spokesperson has called "a near catastrophic" car chase on tuesday night, after they had left an awards ceremony in new york. a statement on behalf of the duke and duchess of sussex — seen here leaving the event — said that the couple was quote "relentlessly pursued" by paparazzi photographers

for over two hours. it also said that the incident resulted in multiple near collisions — involving other drivers, pedestrians and two police officers. meghan�*s mother was travelling with them at the time. the city's police department confirmed an incident did take place — but said there were no injuries or arrests. at a news conference, the mayor of new york city, eric adams, had this to say. i don't think there's many of us who don't recall how his mom died. and it would be horrific to lose an innocent bystander during a chase like this. and something to have happened to them as well. so i think we have to be extremely responsible. i thought that was a bit reckless and irresponsible. i would find it hard to believe that there was a two—hour, high—speed chase. that would be... i'd find it hard to believe. but we will find out the exact duration of it. but if it's a ten minute chase, that is extremely dangerous in new york city.

as prince harry and meghan tried to evade photographers, they were briefly picked up by taxi driver sukhcham singh — who spoke to reporters earlier. the security guard hails me and next thing you know, prince harry and his wife are hopping into my cab. and as we went up a block, we got blocked by a garbage truck, and all of a sudden, paparazzi came and started taking pictures. and then they were just about to give me the location of where they were going to go, but then they told me to start going back to the preset, so we started going back to the preset. that's where i dropped them off. and how were they looking? they looked nervous, i mean, they were being chased the whole day or something, they were pretty nervous. but the security guard, he was on it. what do you think about the i description of this, you know, the near catastrophic event? oh, i don't think that's true! i think that was exaggerated and stuff. live now to our north america correspondent, nomia iqbal, in new york. good to see you. what is the latest you can tell us about

what happened?— latest you can tell us about what ha ened? ~ ., , what happened? well, the latest bill is the what happened? well, the latest billy is the different _ billy is the different recounting of events that happened. —— really is. i'm just outside the venue where meghan was receiving an honorary award for her work on empowering women and girls. the couple along with meghan because my mother left the venue herejust because my mother left the venue here just before 10pm to make thisjourney which venue here just before 10pm to make this journey which they described as almost near fatal when the released that bombshell of a statement. we saw all the headlines around the world and since then there have been different versions of events. we heard bearfrom the mayor of new york city and also the taxi driver, there are other headlines questioning their version of events. we have not heard from them, i should add, we don't know where the sussexes are, if they are still in new york off they are

headed back to california. tell us more about _ headed back to california. tell us more about their security situation, because that has been a contentious issue. hugely contentious. since the couple stepped down from royal duties in 2020 and moved here they lost the police protection. but prince harry has been pretty angry about that, saying it has put him and his family at an unacceptable level of risk so he is in the process of suing the british home office. he did offer to pay for police protection but lawyers from the home office has said wealthy people cannot buy police protection. so that is still ongoing. we understand that at the moment there security detail is privately paid for. in terms of the security they have here that evening, if you see some of the videos and images of them arriving, they did have security with them. you did see paparazzi. in terms of when they left, we seldom

accompanied by the york police department, some of the police officers, but yes, in terms of a security detail we understand thatis a security detail we understand that is paid for privately but prince harry is challenging that currently.— prince harry is challenging that currently. nomia iqbal reporting _ that currently. nomia iqbal reporting from _ that currently. nomia iqbal reporting from new- that currently. nomia iqbal reporting from new york, | that currently. nomia iqbal- reporting from new york, thank you very much for that update. earlier i spoke to emily burack, entertainment and royals writer for town and country magazine. thank you so much forjoining us. what do you know at this point about what happened? goad point about what happened? good evenina. point about what happened? good evening- well. _ point about what happened? good evening. well, as _ point about what happened? good evening. well, as far _ point about what happened? good evening. well, as far as _ point about what happened? (emf. evening. well, as far as we know this is still a developing situation, we are still getting details but as far as we know there was no collision, no injury, no arrest. but we do know that a spokesperson for the duke and duchess of sussex said it was a near catastrophic car chase, that's how they are describing the events of last night. they left the gala around 10pm and around iipm they were at a police precinct

on the upper east side on 67th st and from there they took a taxi to try and divert what was happening. by around 12:30 in the morning they were at their destination and the security guard described them as a scared, and exhausted and relieved to be back. you were at that gala. _ relieved to be back. you were at that gala, tell _ relieved to be back. you were at that gala, tell us, - relieved to be back. you were at that gala, tell us, where i at that gala, tell us, where they are drawing more attention there than usual? you they are drawing more attention there than usual?— there than usual? you know, i was actually — there than usual? you know, i was actually at _ there than usual? you know, i was actually at a _ there than usual? you know, i was actually at a gala - there than usual? you know, i was actually at a gala day - was actually at a gala day attended in december and i gather they were at last night, and the paparazzi presence outside both was pretty similar. i know that they entered through the side door last evening, through the car rental studio which was next door to the ballroom. inside the event there was no heightened attention on them, it was a pretty celebratory evening at the foundation and for the women who are being honoured. i don't know what the

situation was like on their departure, but upon their arrival it was crowded, i would say, about 15 or so photographers. say, about 15 or so -hoto~ra-hers. ~ ., ., ., photographers. we do want to also mention _ photographers. we do want to also mention that _ photographers. we do want to also mention that there - photographers. we do want to also mention that there were l also mention that there were some discrepancies, the taxi driver who spoke to the washington post said he drove them, he said this wasn't a car chase. what do you make of the discrepancies about what happened? i discrepancies about what happened?— discrepancies about what happened? discrepancies about what ha--ened? ~ . , happened? i think we are still findin: happened? i think we are still finding out — happened? i think we are still finding out the _ happened? i think we are still finding out the story - happened? i think we are still finding out the story as - happened? i think we are still finding out the story as we . happened? i think we are still| finding out the story as we get more details but i think for that taxi driver, from what i understand, he was with them for about an hour after the whole thing began, so it's unclear what had happened in the hours leading up to before they got in the taxi and what happened after they got out of the taxi. you know, the new york police department said in a statement that there were numerous photographers and it made a transfer challenging. d0 made a transfer challenging. do they encounter this a lot, this

amount of paparazzi attention? they are not actually out in public that much since they moved to the us, they have kept a pretty low profile, but the paparazzi laws in the uk versus the us is different and that's why we have seen this more intense criticism of them for the winnerjust moved in 2020 they filed a lawsuit in california over drones being spotted over the property, to protect their son's privacy. and this is just another example of the heightened attention that they receive when they are out and about. when people heard about the car chase, a lot of people immediately thought about what happened to harry�*s mother princess diana, who died in a car crash after being pursued by paparazzi. how much do you think that has informed the conversation around what happened in new york last night? happened in new york last niuht? , ., , , happened in new york last niuht? , ., _ �*, ., ., night? obviously, it's hard not to see it as — night? obviously, it's hard not to see it as a _ night? obviously, it's hard not to see it as a similar— to see it as a similar situation but in this case

fortunately everyone was ok. obviously, very different outcomes of both the events. when we look at what happened to princess diana in 1997, of course there was a paparazzi chase as well, but there was a lot of extenuating circumstances as well, prosecuting authorities in the case said the driver of diana's car was well over the legal limit of alcohol so there were other factors that went into what happened there. but prince harry himself, he does see them as very similar. he was an series where he talks about being worried about history repeating itself. he said that, i will quote him here, my mother was chased to her death while she was in a relationship with someone that was not white and now look what's happened. you want to talk about heats —— history repeating itself? they will not stop until meghan he definitely has the vision of his mother's crash, it's very present for him, he writes

about it in his memoir and has spoken about it extensively so i'm sure it is front of his mind. , . ., i'm sure it is front of his mind. , ., ,, i. i'm sure it is front of his mind. , ., ,, . mind. emily, thank you so much forjoining _ mind. emily, thank you so much forjoining us- — mind. emily, thank you so much forjoining us. thank _ mind. emily, thank you so much forjoining us. thank you - mind. emily, thank you so much forjoining us. thank you for - forjoining us. thank you for havin: forjoining us. thank you for having me- _ forjoining us. thank you for having me. around - forjoining us. thank you for having me. around the - forjoining us. thank you for| having me. around the world forjoining us. thank you for - having me. around the world and across the _ having me. around the world and across the uk, _ having me. around the world and across the uk, this _ having me. around the world and across the uk, this is _ having me. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc - across the uk, this is bbc news. laura and kirsty goodchild at the university of east anglia, speaking publicly for the first time about the impact the loss of smell and distorted smell has had on their lives. this photo was taken on laura's 18th birthday. they couldn't eat their roast dinner because it tasted rotten. when your diet is affected and you can't eat healthy, balanced food, you can't have your normal routine, it ends up in you feeling quite fatigued, quite malnourished, and you lose concentration. so it starts dispensing a scent. this rehabilitation device, demonstrated at the uea today, helps to train sufferers to smell again. the sisters were concerned they'd spend the rest of their lives without their sense of smell,

but after 18 months, it returned. definitely pleased to have my smell and taste back. it feels amazing. i don't think i quite appreciated how much i loved food and cooking and going out to restaurants. you're live with bbc news. us presidentjoe biden is on his way to japan as he embarks on a trip to the g7 summit. he originally planned to visit papua new guinea and australia as well, but will instead return early for high—stakes negotiations over the us debt ceiling. the gathering in hiroshima takes place amid rising tensions between the west and china, particularly over taiwan. during the summit, japan's prime minister, fumio kishida, and his british counterpart, rishi sunak, will sign a new defence pact to deploy a uk carrier strike group to the indo—pacific in 2025. on those debts talks — the white house and congressional republicans have appointed a new set of negotiators, injecting fresh hope into talks to raise the debt limit. kevin mccarthy, the house speaker, said a deal

was "possible" by the end of the week. without a deal, the us could default on its $31.4 trillion debt as soon as the 1st ofjune. earlier i spoke with ed o'keefe, senior white house and political correspondent at cbs news. so let's talk first about the g7, because president biden's cutting his trip short. he was supposed to go to papua new guinea and australia, and he's coming back to handle the debt crisis, as wejust mentioned. and this part of the trip was seen as a way for the us to reaffirm its commitment to the region. is the white house worried that key allies might not respond well to the fact that he did cut this trip short? well, we know they haven't responded well already. the australians — while they're putting on a good public face about it — expressed a lot of concern that the president was upending what was supposed to be a very big dealfor australia to host this meeting of what's called the quad, which is the united states, australia, india and japan, who've been working together on intelligence and national—security issues. instead, the g7 will dominate the weekend, but now there's plans for the president to make sure he takes time to meet with the australian leader, with india's modi and with others, and they may

try to have an informal gathering of the quad injapan as opposed to in australia. so the pride of australia perhaps is a little shaken by this and, yes, it means he's not physically going to a part of the world where the united states is very concerned. china's influence is growing too much. the hope was to have him go there and say, look, the united states is a close partner economically, politically, militarily. now, he can't do that. the one thing australia does get out of this, however, is a state visit here in washington. 0k. so they'll get all the pomp and circumstance at some point here in dc. and president biden's — the white house has certainly said there's a reason he's coming back — to deal with the debt crisis, of course. right. and now the president has appointed three trusted advisors to work on a deal with republican garret graves. they're all trusted parties on capitol hill. what should we expect for them in order to avoid a default byjune1st? so these are essentially the wingmen for the two guys that have to cut the deal. steve ricchetti, who you see there on the left, is perhaps the most critical here when it comes to the president, because he's worked with him for about 20 years off and on,

and has known him longer than that, knows the president's pressure points, knows where he'd say yes and no, and has also been a key interlocutor with congressional republicans and with moderate democrats in his own party that he's going to need for this deal. shalanda young, the budget director, is another good example of somebody who's critical here and has the trust of everybody, because she used to help write these massive trillion—dollar spending bills on behalf of democrats in the lower house, and so she knows the politics of that chamber while also serving for the president. but garret graves is a good example of the kind of republican now who works alongside the republican speaker and says, no, this is what we really need, this is where we're willing to compromise. and as somebody, frankly, who is a lot more unfamiliar to this white house — they're not used to working with this more conservative and younger generation of republicans. so the next few days are critical. so let's talk now about the nuts and bolts of what this deal could look like. we know democrats and republicans are split over this issue of work requirements... yeah. ..which require low—income americans to work in order

to receive government benefits. the president did show some room for compromise today. let's play a clip of what he said. well, i'm not... i'm not going to accept any work requirement that's going to impact on medical health needs of people. i'm not going to accept any work requirements that go much beyond what is already — what i... i voted years ago for the work requirements that exist. so it seems like the democrats and republicans are still far apart on this issue. where is there room for a deal? well, and if he's for work requirements, there are certain liberal members of his party who are not. yeah. so even if he does say some yes to something, it will be critical to see, what specific programme does it affect, and who specifically might have to work more — or at least prove that they're doing so — and how big a percentage do they make up of the beneficiaries? there are democrats who say there shouldn't be any requirements on this at all, but this is a president who understands we're in divided government. he has no problem making deals with the other side as long as everybody can come out

a winner in one way or another. but it's an example of how far they still have to go on the details. i want to ask you about one workaround that some democrats on the left side of the party are urging president biden to take — which is invoking the 14th amendment of the constitution. it reads in part — so our viewers know — "the validity of the public debt of the us authorized by law shall not be questioned". could this actually work? it warms my heart to know that the bbc is even discussing elements of the us constitution. but in this way, in fact, it's a really relevant thing because the president has argued he could very well try to invoke this. and essentially what it says there in law is, if the us has debt, it has to be paid off. and so the argument that some have made is, he should invoke it and spark a court case that essentially gets the courts to say yeah! that's always been the case since the 14th amendment was passed, and all these political debates have been just that — silly political exercises that weren't necessary because it's already written into the constitution that if you've got debt, you just have to pay it off. very quick last question —

in 30 seconds if you can. this is all coming, of course, as the 2024 campaign is heating up. yeah. how does this play into the campaign? well, it allows the president, if things go well in the next few days, to demonstrate that he can work on both domestic and foreign matters at the same time. those are two bedrock principles of his original campaign, and ones he hopes to make again. republicans are doing everything they can to make him look weak, to force him to compromise with them. they may succeed in this round, but he's still got more than a year to go until the election. we'll see how long memories are. ed o'keefe, senior white house and political correspondent at cbs news, it's always great to have you on the show. thank you. good to be here. now to a stark warning from scientists on climate change — the world will almost certainily experience its hottest year on record within the coming years. they also say that a key temperature threshold — a rise in global temperature by 1.5 degrees celsius above pre—industrial levels — is likely to be breached for the first time. a hotter planet will lead to stronger and more frequent catastrophic weather events — such as wildfires like what we're seeing in western canada — with the skies turning orange.

at least eight people have been killed and several are missing after heavy rains caused flooding in northern italy, and southern europe is bracing for a summer of ferocious drought. earlier my colleague carl nasman spoke to samantha gross — the director of energy security and climate at the brookings institution and a former us department of energy official. thank you so much forjoining us today. i want to ask you about the major takeaways in this united nations report. and first of all, researchers now saying that there is a 66% chance that we will pass the 1.5 degrees celsius global warming threshold between now and the year 2027. what would that level of warming look like for humanity? well, the one and a half degree threshold, it's not a hard and fast thing where the world falls off a cliff, but it's definitely an area where things that are concerning to humanity become that much more likely. things like more extreme sea rise, more extreme storms,

more extreme droughts and flooding, those sorts of things. and so we're not falling off a cliff, but it's definitely an area where we see these things accelerate. and that's concerning. but certainly not a cliff that we would prefer to go over, right? no, not at all. of course not. how surprised are you that we might be approaching and even passing this threshold as soon as the year 2027? that's only a few years from now. you know, i wish i could say i was surprised, but certainly not a cliff that we would prefer but i'm not at all. if you look at the current level of warming that we're experiencing, we're atjust shy of 1.2 degrees celsius already. so the one and a half degree threshold is not very far away. and you also don't really see emissions going down globally. you see them going down in europe and the united states and other important markets. but more and more of the world's emissions are coming from the developing world, especially china, and those aren't slowing down yet. so i wish i was

surprised, but i'm not. this, i think, is a question that a lot of people would like to know. how difficult will it be, or could it be, if we were to cross that threshold of 1.5 degrees celsius warming, how difficult would it be to then come back, which we hope we would be able to do? well, it's something that we can do over time. if you think about the climate system as a glass that we're filling up over time, what we need to do is stop filling the glass and then at some point maybe we can remove some of that water from the glass or emissions from the atmosphere. there are ways to do that. you can pull carbon out of the atmosphere. in the oceans, you can do it through direct removal and sequestration of co2. and there are other ways to do that. but first, we have to really focus on stopping filling the glass, bringing emissions down, and then getting to the point where we can think about going back. is the us or are any countries around the world working to take that glass and bring it

down, working to not only prevent future emissions but start to even lower the amount of emissions that a country emits? oh, we're absolutely working on lowering our emissions globally. the united states, europe and all countries, i mean, all countries in the world basically have signed on to the paris agreement at this point with different levels of goals. and so we're all working on filling the glass a lot more slowly. the problem is, is that it takes a lot of time. the energy system is a multi trillion dollar system that underlies the entire global economy. the easier parts, decarbonising the electricity sector, for instance, we're really moving along. wind and solar are some of the cheapest forms of energy there are right now. i also want to ask you about another takeaway from this report, saying that there is a 98% likelihood that at least one of the next five years, and the five year period as a whole, will be the warmest on record. given the heat waves we've been seeing, how prepared are we and countries around

the globe for those kinds of temperatures? you know, we're doing our best and we need to become more prepared, because this is our new normal. the last eight years have been the eight warmest years on record. even though we've had a la nina event for the last three years, which generally causes global cooling. and so these hot temperatures are the new norm and we need to get used to it. the challenge is, is that getting used to it for many people involves more energy use in terms of air conditioning and that sort of thing. so we need to think about designing our cities to be greener. trees in cities, for instance, help keep the surrounding area cool. everything we can, particularly those that don't involve energy use to make these high temperatures easier to tolerate. all right. samantha gross, thank you so much for your time. my pleasure. stay with us here on bbc news. thank you for watching. do

follow us on twitter. hello there. there's going to be some more warm sunshine at times on thursday. could be one or two showers breaking out, mind you. and later in the day, we're going to find this cloud coming in from the atlantic to bring a little rain into the northwest. right now, though, we've got this stream of cloud moving down from the north. a lot of it, though, is quite thin, high, cloud, but with more cloud around, temperatures will start at nearer nine or ten degrees early on thursday. and from that cloud, there could still be a little light rain or drizzle in scotland. now, eastern parts of scotland should become drier and brighter. and in northern ireland there'll be some sunshine in the morning before that band of cloud brings that line of rain. for england and wales, there'll be some sunny spells developing, but as it warms up a bit we could trigger a few showers through the midlands, some eastern parts of england. further west it's likely

to stay dry, and we may well find the highest temperature around worcestershire and herefordshire, but it's still only 20 degrees. nothing to get too excited. we normally see temperatures a bit higher than that at this time of the year. and generally those numbers are going to be 17 or 18 celsius, once again, like wednesday. there is that weather front though, bringing that line of rain into scotland and northern ireland that's going to then push its way down into england and wales on friday. and that cloud may start to thicken up and bring with it a few more showers. and those could be a little heavy as they push into the midlands towards the south east of england. following on from that, we've got more sunshine to come for scotland and northern ireland, though the cloud will build up a bit and spread out. but temperatures are likely to reach 18 degrees in glasgow, the same as the temperature there in plymouth, and it'll be warm in the sunshine. for scotland and northern ireland as we head into the weekend, though, there's likely to be more cloud coming in from the atlantic, a little bit more breezy in northern scotland. high pressure will keep it dry, though, for england and wales, and there'll be a lot of sunshine around, as well.

but more cloud for scotland and northern ireland — just about thick enough to give a little light rain or drizzle here and there. no great amounts by any means. and we've still got temperatures of 18 degrees in the central belt. in the sunshine for england and wales, temperatures could hit 20 or 21 celsius. and there's more sunshine to come for england and wales on sunday. more of a breeze in the southeast. should actually brighten up with some sunshine in south east scotland. other parts of scotland and northern ireland again seeing more cloud, not much rain coming from that cloud. and where you have the sunshine, it'll be warm again.

welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. my guest is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, yet he is little known in his native britain and is only belatedly — to use his word — being given recognition here in the uk. well, now there is a major exhibition at the prestigious tate britain museum of the work of the british—caribbean artist and film maker, sir isaacjulien.

it is a sweeping showcase of his four—decade career.